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FighT_ bAj^k l--ß£?-ß.e.. 2, no. ^j_ : i cueljyerg, Marstallstrasse J_1a
"SUUTIi VIETNAM /UU.:jJ HAVE BEEN SETTER Cl™ LOSING TO HANOI THAI!
WINNING WITH US." — Senator Gaylord Nelson (Wisconsin) l
Newsweek, June 12, 1972
"It would bo fabulous if the war in Vietnam
cooled down«" said one U.S. delegate to the
Stockholm conference last week. "It would help
us a lot if we didn't have to defend charges of
ecocide«" But the war was very much on« the
charges were being shouted in the streets of
Stockholm« ana if what was happening in Vietnam wasn't ecocide« it would serve -until the
real thing came along.
The most publicized damage of the war was
done by the herbicide spraying that started in
1969 in an effort to deprive the Viet Cong of
food and cover. By the time the program was
halted a year ago« it had utterly destroyed one-
fifth to one-half of South Vietnam's mangrove
forests, killed perhaps half the trees in the
hardwood forests north and west of Saigon and
stripped a tota] of 5°5 million acres.
After the spraying stopped, the stripping
operation contined with huge "Rome Plow" bulldozers denuding 800,000 more acres at 1,000
acres a day. Bombs and shells also took their
toll 5 between I965 and 1971« bombing had created
about 26 million orators with an average depth
of 25 feet and diameter of 40 feet7
"There is nothing in the history of warfare
to compare with it," Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord
( Nelson recently told Congress. "Never before has
a land been so massively altered and mutilated..;
The cold, hard and cruel irony of it all is that
South Vietnam would have been better off losing
to Hanoi than winning with us."
ilewsweek, June 12, 1972, p. 21
An American Senator now Gays that a Communist South Vietnam
would have been better than the dead Sou. stnam we have in-1972.
Life is better than death. A Communist South Vietnam would be
better than a South Vietnam defoliated by friendly America,
'./HI ASS SS hllllNG Si UTK VIETNAM?
If Russia and China are as militarily aggressive as the U.S.;-.,
re are t_h_eir Vietns rs? ;e say we a 'otecting the world
against communism. Then why is America, and nos Russia or China,
the first nation to defoliate an intended ally, a neutral nation?
e South Vietnamese believe they need more protection from
America than from Com; s. ;erica is the 'dangerous aggressor'
in mouth Vietnam ..(see above), n ; Communists.
LJ DTI i: T ohm
AH , _ , MISS STOP CHS W S
For more info, on Vietnam, G.I, rights, etc., write; FighT bAck,
69 Heidelberg, Marstallstrasse 11a

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FighT_ bAj^k l--ß£?-ß.e.. 2, no. ^j_ : i cueljyerg, Marstallstrasse J_1a
"SUUTIi VIETNAM /UU.:jJ HAVE BEEN SETTER Cl™ LOSING TO HANOI THAI!
WINNING WITH US." — Senator Gaylord Nelson (Wisconsin) l
Newsweek, June 12, 1972
"It would bo fabulous if the war in Vietnam
cooled down«" said one U.S. delegate to the
Stockholm conference last week. "It would help
us a lot if we didn't have to defend charges of
ecocide«" But the war was very much on« the
charges were being shouted in the streets of
Stockholm« ana if what was happening in Vietnam wasn't ecocide« it would serve -until the
real thing came along.
The most publicized damage of the war was
done by the herbicide spraying that started in
1969 in an effort to deprive the Viet Cong of
food and cover. By the time the program was
halted a year ago« it had utterly destroyed one-
fifth to one-half of South Vietnam's mangrove
forests, killed perhaps half the trees in the
hardwood forests north and west of Saigon and
stripped a tota] of 5°5 million acres.
After the spraying stopped, the stripping
operation contined with huge "Rome Plow" bulldozers denuding 800,000 more acres at 1,000
acres a day. Bombs and shells also took their
toll 5 between I965 and 1971« bombing had created
about 26 million orators with an average depth
of 25 feet and diameter of 40 feet7
"There is nothing in the history of warfare
to compare with it" Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord
( Nelson recently told Congress. "Never before has
a land been so massively altered and mutilated..;
The cold, hard and cruel irony of it all is that
South Vietnam would have been better off losing
to Hanoi than winning with us."
ilewsweek, June 12, 1972, p. 21
An American Senator now Gays that a Communist South Vietnam
would have been better than the dead Sou. stnam we have in-1972.
Life is better than death. A Communist South Vietnam would be
better than a South Vietnam defoliated by friendly America,
'./HI ASS SS hllllNG Si UTK VIETNAM?
If Russia and China are as militarily aggressive as the U.S.;-.,
re are t_h_eir Vietns rs? ;e say we a 'otecting the world
against communism. Then why is America, and nos Russia or China,
the first nation to defoliate an intended ally, a neutral nation?
e South Vietnamese believe they need more protection from
America than from Com; s. ;erica is the 'dangerous aggressor'
in mouth Vietnam ..(see above), n ; Communists.
LJ DTI i: T ohm
AH , _ , MISS STOP CHS W S
For more info, on Vietnam, G.I, rights, etc., write; FighT bAck,
69 Heidelberg, Marstallstrasse 11a